Article: The Manitoba Royal Commission on Flood Cost Benefit and the origins of cost-benefit analysis in Canada.

The importance of the royal commission for Canadian policy development has long been recognized. (1) Canadian political scientists since the 1960s have emphasized the role of the royal commission in federal policymaking, while the scanty scholarly literature on the history of royal commissions has focused on particular federal commissions that have dealt with broad national policy issues. Virtually the only provincial royal commission that has received much attention is Quebec's Tremblay Commission on constitutional problems of 1953. (2) As well as the assumption that more interesting and arguably more important commissions were at the federal level, the literature has ...

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